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Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler Had Gay Sex But “Just Didn’t Dig It”

Steven Tyler, best known these days as an American Idol judge, has a memoir that came out today called Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

It is filled with revelations. Here are a few that I thought my interest my readers the most:

On gay sex: Gay sex just doesn’t do it for me. I tried it one time when I was younger, but I just didn’t dig it.

On being half male, half female: I’ve been misquoted as saying that I’m more female than male. Let me set the record straight — it’s more half and half, and I love the fact that my feelings are akin to puella eternis (Latin for “the eternal girl”). What better to be like than the stronger of the species?

On being bullied as a kid: I got into street fights in the Bronx all the time — an hour and a half they went on, I’d come home bloody as hell. … I got spit on in school and called “N****r Lips.” The kids would snap my earlobes with their fingers, which was especially painful on freezing cold days.